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  1. ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/it-seemed-like-every-town-in-america-had-something-going-on-week-of-action-against-flock-and-alprs-gets-people-engaged-acpc/
  2. ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/it-seemed-like-every-town-in-america-had-something-going-on-week-of-action-against-flock-and-alprs-gets-people-engaged-acpc/
  3. ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/it-seemed-like-every-town-in-america-had-something-going-on-week-of-action-against-flock-and-alprs-gets-people-engaged-acpc/
  4. ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/it-seemed-like-every-town-in-america-had-something-going-on-week-of-action-against-flock-and-alprs-gets-people-engaged-acpc/
  5. ACPC: ‘It seemed like every town in America had something going on’: Week of Action against Flock and ALPRs gets people engaged. “[Len] Phillips said the man was an example of how the event’s 110 or so attendees included people of differing political ideologies—including Democratic Socialists, Libertarians and conservatives—who nonetheless shared concerns about the proliferation of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/it-seemed-like-every-town-in-america-had-something-going-on-week-of-action-against-flock-and-alprs-gets-people-engaged-acpc/
  6. Institute for Justice: Institute for Justice Unveils New Database Tracking Cancelations of License Plate Reader Contracts. “As backlash grows against the warrantless use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras throughout the country, local governments are increasingly deciding to end their use of these cameras. Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) unveiled a new database tracking […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/institute-for-justice-institute-for-justice-unveils-new-database-tracking-cancelations-of-license-plate-reader-contracts/
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer: Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need. “[Cody] Morelock was arrested after the June incident and then prosecutors in Clermont County, Ohio took what looked like an open-and-shut case — with surveillance tapes, credit-card receipts, and other hard evidence connecting the 35-year-old man to the alleged crime — before a grand jury of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/24/philadelphia-inquirer-fighting-ai-and-flock-todays-luddites-are-the-revolutionaries-we-need/
  8. NPR: Amid intense backlash, people are vandalizing Flock surveillance cameras. “An increasing number of people are combating the technology in both legal and illegal ways. According to an NPR review of local news reports, Flock cameras have been vandalized in at least 36 states. People have stolen the cameras, sawed them down, crashed into them with cars, covered them in paint and stickers, and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/22/npr-amid-intense-backlash-people-are-vandalizing-flock-surveillance-cameras/
  9. Mashable: Have you been Flocked? This website lets you find out. “A website called Have I Been Flocked? lets you enter your license plate number and check whether it appears in publicly released records of searches conducted through Flock Safety’s system. As of Aug. 17, the website had compiled nearly 242 million searches involving more than 4.6 million plates.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/18/mashable-have-you-been-flocked-this-website-lets-you-find-out/
  10. > A Washington Post investigation found that at least 50 law enforcement officers nationwide have been charged with or accused of misusing Flock’s network of over 120,000 AI license-plate cameras, most often to stalk women without their knowledge, including wives, girlfriends, exes, or new partners of exes. The investigation centers on Marci Bakely, a Georgia woman whose ex-boyfriend, police chief Michael Steffman, searched her license plate roughly 600 times over 13 months before being arrested on stalking and harassment charges; he died by suicide in April before facing trial.

    Other documented cases include a Kansas police lieutenant fired for tracking his ex-wife and their children, a Florida officer who told his girlfriend “the police are already here” after threatening her with his gun, and a Wisconsin officer who used Flock to check whether his girlfriend had visited an abortion clinic. The Post found that Flock gives police departments wide latitude over oversight settings, with many agencies conducting minimal auditing, and in some cases officers continued using the system even after being flagged for misuse, while punishments varied widely due to a patchwork of state laws and no federal regulation. Flock has said abuse is “inevitable” given its scale but pointed to new voluntary “audit assistance” tools as a fix, while critics like the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation argue basic safeguards, such as requiring a case number for every search, remain optional rather than mandatory.

    #aaronparnas #substack #uspol
    #uspolitics #flockcameras
    #licenseplatesurveillance
    #licenseplatereaders #stalking
    #policeofficer #policeinvestigation
    #marciblakely #georgia #kansas
    #florida #Wisconsin #aclu #eff
    #electronicfrontierfoundation

    open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar

  11. On today's episode of #WMPG's #CommunityVoicesForChange, the topic is #FlockCameras, Municipal #Surveillance and #Privacy!

    Community Voices For Change
    On Mon from 01:00 pm EST to 01:30 pm EST
    With: Richard Rudolph

    Description

    "Community Voices for Change is a talk show highlighting the work of individuals and organizations working to enhance the greater good of communities. Producer and Host Richard Rudolph begins each show with music from Sam Cooke’s Ain’t That Good News Album -'A Change is Gonna Come'. The show is also based on the writings of #HowardZinn and other writers who believe if we can get organized '#SmallActs' multiplied by hundreds, thousands of people we can transform our communities, the state and even possibly the world. Our sound engineer is Dennis Kirkpatrick."

    Link to show info and archives:
    wmpg.org/show/mon1300/

    Spreaker link:
    spreaker.com/podcast/community

    #CommunityRadio #MainePol #USPol #Orwellian #SurveillanceState

  12. Ars Technica: FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer ‘near real time’ information from cameras across the US. The proposed contract is for the FBI Directorate of […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/21/ars-technica-fbi-seeks-us-wide-access-to-license-plate-cameras-wants-data-in-near-real-time/
  13. The Guardian: Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown. “Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/11/the-guardian-local-police-aid-ice-by-tapping-school-cameras-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown/
  14. ...The audit logs originate from Texas school districts that contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that manufactures artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers and other surveillance technology...

    #FlockCameras #SchoolSurveillance #Texas #LocalPolice #ICE
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f